Habitat for Humanity helping Rock Hill residents assess, clean up storm damage

Volunteers with York Habitat for Humanity spent Wednesday working to help families recover after Saturday's storms left some roads impassable and homes destroyed.
Mary Cuerton lives on Crawford Road. Trees were still sprawled across her backyard days after the storm.
“It started hailing great, big hail and then it blew out the windows and it was sounding just like [Hurricane] Hugo came through with the whoof, whoof, whoof ... Whoofing up the trees," Cuerton said.
A large pecan tree planted by her father years ago was uprooted in minutes and tossed aside as 90 mph wind moved through, similar to a Category 1 hurricane.
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I experienced Hurricane Hugo. Her description of the sound is spot on.